is approximately twenty feet square. in other room there are seven, eight, ten and as few as four. Due to additional barracks being unavailable the personel per room is to be increased to ten as necessary depending on the number of purges, as we call new arrivals, in this compound.

Sleeping is finally accomplished in double bunks (which will be triple sooner or later for additional men) on straw ticks which is placed on five or six slats in lieu of a spring. This, of course isn’t exactly like home, but then one becomes accustomed to this after a period of time. We are furnished two blankets, one sheet, mattress cover and pillow slip for those with pillows. This plus an overcoat gives ample warmth which i reckon will suffice the coldest